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Introduction
The extract under study takes place in the drawing room where a the music evening is getting started. ... Four other black maids of Gaze perform local music and English ones. ... The passage is composed of a description of the evening and the thoughts of the protagonist, Marian. ... Atmosphere
The Setting
The setting, the time and place in which the characters are created may be crucially significant because the writer, Iris Murdoch, may use it to convey information about the mood or temperament of the characters themselves, either symbolically or by adopting the characters point of view towards it.
Time
The music evening is a real happening at Gaze. ...
Place
The mood and feeling, the intangible quality which appeals to extra-sensory as well as sensory perception, evoked by the description of the evening night is quite difficult to define. ...
The drawing room has been resurrected for this special evening and the use of such a word suggests that the room is alive and personified. ... Even nature seems to be clement, and the opened windows allows Nature to share the evening night too with its beautiful starry night and the nice smell of the sea and tamarisk. There is nothing weird or dangerous associated to Nature on this evening. ... Like a new born baby she discovers new things: The music is “more ambitious than she had expected”, she had never seen the “sort of stringed instrument resembling a Jew’s harp” , she “had not noticed that the grand piano had a Pianola attachment”, she “had not expected this assault upon her feelings…”. ...
In Iris Murdoch’s novels, outsiders are a symbolical category. ... But Marian feels as if the music and the whole atmosphere were uniting all of them in the illusion of happiness. ...
The seeing of Hannah reminds her of the brutal reality, of the illusion of the evening. ...
The music
She also thinks in a rather Platonist way for Plato showed a famous disrespect for art and thought it had the power of persuasion and was used as a propaganda. ... The use of such words put forward the view that music has these powers of disturbing and most of all, of hypnotising. ...
So, here, music is a medium to the spell in the evening.
Approximate Word count = 1854
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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